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by danlitt 8mo ago
> look at countries where the state is both heavy on taxes and inefficient And you accuse me of cherry picking! I have to guess, since I don't know what you regard as "inefficient", but about half of the top-ten-GDP countr
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by danlitt 8mo ago
> given that Ireland runs a deficit in their state budget is this true? Last I heard Ireland ran a surplus for the last 5 years or so.
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Are you arguing that most good writers from history were poor? This is after all the only "horrible experience" a subsidy would alleviate. I don't think that's actually supported by evidence, most great writers I can thi
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by danlitt 8mo ago
This argument has a lot of holes in it. Notably, > Planned economies have historically failed. Very much false - the US war and post-war economy was very heavily planned, and was perhaps the most successful economy in history (precisely
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by danlitt 8mo ago
If these packages get security holes daily, they probably cannot "just go" as the parent comment suggested (except in the case of a hostile takeover). If they have significant holes, then they must be significant code. Trivial cod
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by danlitt 8mo ago
I agree with everything you wrote. I meant to contrast them with "chemical" air pollution, and 2.5 μm is much larger than a molecule!
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by danlitt 8mo ago
It could have been replaced by almost anything, there is nothing particularly special about nuclear in this context (except its extremely high price).
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Particulate matter is relatively large particles, so far as air pollution goes. Think things like soot or smoke, rather than specific chemicals. Burning wood and coal produces far more particulates than, say, natural gas or gasoline-gas.
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by danlitt 8mo ago
No, I don't think Eurostar was affected at all.
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Why not? Most people reflect on their day before they go to bed.
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by danlitt 9mo ago
lmao
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by danlitt 9mo ago
This is cool, but "legacy systems that talk over TCP in plaintext" sounds like it might qualify for "horribly outdated", no?
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by danlitt 10mo ago
Honestly it depends what you're doing. A tag name is only correct when it unambiguously specifies the content. As in, a header is just a header - there's no "dual nature" that we have to support by allowing multiple tag
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by danlitt 10mo ago
Giving the users source code and no rights to do anything with it really doesn't give them very much. Software freedom advocates are not just nerds who really enjoy reading source code. The point is that if you have the source code an
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by danlitt 11mo ago
Why do you think it has to be all or nothing? They are both reasonable concerns. That's why reasonable disclosure windows are usually short but not zero.
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by danlitt 11mo ago
> it seems obvious that disclosure policy for FOSS should be “when patch available” and not static X days This is very far from obvious. If google doesn't feel like prioritising a critical issue, it remains irresponsible not to warn
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by danlitt 1y ago
That's because Excel is a pure functional language :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw
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by danlitt 1y ago
This criticism seems at face value to also apply to first-class functions, which I thought was a totally uncontroversial pattern. Do you dislike those too?
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by danlitt 1y ago
Yes, I get that, I did allow for it in my original comment. I remain convinced this is a gibberish metric - there is probably no such thing as "a task that would take a human 2 minutes", and certainly no such thing as "an A
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by danlitt 1y ago
The numbers are fake, but the returns are real, until they aren't. If all you go off is past performance then you will fall for any scam.
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by danlitt 1y ago
It's a stupid concept because it's behind every ponzi scheme.
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by danlitt 1y ago
The key word is "unrelated"! Being able to count the number of words in a paragraph and being able to train an image classifier are so different as to be unrelated for all practical purposes. The assumption underlying this kind of
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by danlitt 1y ago
> why predict that the growth rate is going to slow exactly now? why predict that it will continue? Nobody ever actually makes an argument that growth is likely to continue, they just extrapolate from existing trends and make a guess, wi
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by danlitt 1y ago
I am constantly astonished that articles like this even pass the smell test. It is not rational to predict exponential growth just because you've seen exponential growth before! Incidentally, that is not what people did during COVID,
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by danlitt 1y ago
If you hear about someone getting actually punished for this then I would probably agree with you. But I (and I think everyone else in the thread) was talking about whether people in the US should risk that punishment in order to support ou
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by danlitt 1y ago
Rather "nobody with power is going to care".
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by danlitt 1y ago
Who said I don't care? I care a lot, I just don't care more than I care about staying out of federal prison. It would be one thing if you'd be carrying the torch and the public would be behind you if only you'd be so cou
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by danlitt 1y ago
Are you for real? Being unable to access github is not exactly comparable to rounding people up to be murdered.
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by danlitt 1y ago
Does that affect the reasoning? Even though I think it is profoundly wrong, I am not going to risk 20 years in prison for something realistically nobody is going to care about.
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by danlitt 1y ago
Do they have enough money available to fund everyone who can't afford to come, or do they have to decide who to fund from a wider pool of otherwise good applicants?

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